All this did was make a lot of supposedly smart people look stupid....

Texas is the superior power, they can do what they no matter what, league folds noboby wants them, they go independant, they have their own network ala Notre Dame.... The conference stays together, Texas does as it pleases, if you don't like it, leave....

Obviously the SEC is too frightening & Okie schools can't compete, they've already decided it's 5th place or worse year after year....

I'm a state of OKLAHOMA fan but I'm saddened that the local school besides Tulsa are afraid of competition.... I say that about TULSA because they aren't afraid to schedule multiple potential Top 10 teams in one season.... They may lose, but at least they show up with what they got & they'll gladly return....

If only that basketball scheduler didn't duck ORU, I'd really be proud of them....

ORU scheduled tough this year in Basketball. They replaced the TU game with a road trip to Gonzaga. So TU Basketball went the wimpy route this year. But TU football scheduled great.

Dominated by Texas?

Beat them on the field.

Period.

Talk about being stood up senior prom night.
Left at the alter.
Please let us back in the Big 12, pleeeeeeease.
Where are the apologizies from the media chumps for getting every single thing wrong?
Welcome to the Big 12, North Texas.

What was interesting in the Pac-12 statement was the comment that they are committed to maintaining "an equitable revenue system," meaning that it was the greed of Texas that prompted them to reject the four Big-12 teams. For once, I am grateful to the Longhorns! Speaking of the horns, they proved nothing at UCLA, which has already demonstrated that it belongs in C-USA.

amne to the clowns statement

Picker, to answer your question as to why you aren't being hailed as some sort of genius, perhaps it's because you really haven't offered anything probative, insightful or reasonable in this whole discussion.

All I've heard you suggest is: (i) we should go to the Big 10, and (ii) we shouldn't go to the Pac without Texas.

The former is silly and misinformed. Your loyal readers have shown you grace in not beating the crap out of you for that one. The latter is self-evident, hardly cutting-edge commentary, and cetainly not worthy of props. A child of four gets it, man; we need a "Texas connection" for recruiting.

Boren's plan never contemplated a move west without Texas (see my post to Sittler's article) and, all I can say in response to last night's announcement from the Pac is: (i) Scott got ahead of his members and made a commitment to Boren that he couldn't deliver, (ii) he baited and used Boren to leverage Texas and, when that failed, crawfished on his word, or (iii) Boren got concessions from the existing conference that he felt were a better option and allowed Scott the priviledge of the first presser.

I've engaged you twice to offer us your suggestion of a plan that is better than oSu, OU, UT and Taco going into the same pod in the Pac and all we've received in response is silence.

So put your journalistic reputation on the line and tell us all how it should be.

We value your opinion, and enjoy your humor, but, on this point, we're just a lil weary of your taking no position and just criticizing everything.

We now have your plan for OU, which is worthy of its own criticism.

What, pray tell, is your advice to the Pokes?

You've criticized the Pac move based on geography, but you'd rather OU travel to the right coast to play Carolina, Fla, Ga, etc, than you would jump on a $58 hour and a half Southwest flight to Phoenix?

Is playing only aTm enough of a "serious Texas connection" to preserve OU's recruiting, IYO?

But, back to your thoughts on oSu.

Pickens has been making Picker's TCU argument for weeks. I can only assume that either TCU ain't interested or we can't get the votes to receive them. It's just too easy a fix for it not to have already happened. Not saying it isn't reasonable; just that it apparently isn't gonna happen.

Which brings us back to the topic of the blog, in which Picker is seeking some sort of praise: Assuming no TCU, assuming we want to preserve Texas ties, assuming 9 ain't enough to keep the XII together, what was a better option than our state schools going Pac, along with the Horns and Taco?

Let's not assume that, because it didn't happen, that Boren hasn't put together something better in the XII.

Picker, would you seriously prefer OU in the SEC with only aTm to preserve what you have described as an essential "major Texas connection" or would you rather have OU in the Pac with Texas, oSu and Taco?

That's all I wanna know.

Soko...you solved the mystery! Pickens is the picker! Its so obvious now...I should have seen it years ago.

He's like Bruce Wayne...billionaire by day...savior to the idiots of the sports world by night.

Houston is a mid-minor, what does it seat, 8,000?